From Scott Kruitbosch: 10/05/12 - Stratford Point -- From just after dawn through mid-morning I had 75 species including 1 BLUE GROSBEAK, 1 CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, 1 YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, 2 EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE (late), 1 BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, 1 LINCOLN'S SPARROW, 2 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH. We were covered with kinglets with at least 41 Golden-crowned Kinglet and 33 Ruby-crowned Kinglet. 1 DARK-EYED JUNCO was a FOS for me. There were many raptors roaming. Birds were flying in off the water. Birds were flying down to the coast and heading into LIS. Birds were turning west and back north. I'm way under on some of these totals as I was mostly alone in tough light, with some birds flying by silently that shall forever be unknown (more AMGO, BOBO, HOFI, PUFI? PISI?). I focused on what was on the ground and in the trees. The full eBird list: Canada Goose 8 Mute Swan 4 American Black Duck 2 Mallard 1 Green-winged Teal 6 Common Loon 1 Double-crested Cormorant 187 Great Egret 6 Snowy Egret 3 Osprey 2 Northern Harrier 1 Cooper's Hawk 2 Black-bellied Plover 7 Semipalmated Plover 2 American Oystercatcher 1 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Sanderling 64 Semipalmated Sandpiper 12 Laughing Gull 6 Ring-billed Gull 168 Herring Gull (American) 339 Great Black-backed Gull 18 Rock Pigeon 6 Mourning Dove 38 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1 American Kestrel 2 Merlin 2 Peregrine Falcon 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 Eastern Phoebe 14 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Blue Jay 16 American Crow 3 Tree Swallow 1 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 21 Red-breasted Nuthatch 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 House Wren 2 Carolina Wren 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 41 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 33 American Robin 31 Gray Catbird 6 Northern Mockingbird 5 European Starling 254 American Pipit 3 Cedar Waxwing 5 Common Yellowthroat 7 Bay-breasted Warbler 1 Blackpoll Warbler 8 Palm Warbler (Western) 2 Palm Warbler (Yellow) 19 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 28 Eastern Towhee 3 Clay-colored Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 39 Song Sparrow 32 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 Swamp Sparrow 8 White-throated Sparrow 26 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 1 Northern Cardinal 4 Blue Grosbeak 1 Bobolink 3 Red-winged Blackbird 4 Common Grackle 7 Brown-headed Cowbird 120 House Finch 12 American Goldfinch 26 House Sparrow 9 ======== Scott Kruitbosch Conservation Technician Connecticut Audubon Society 2325 Burr St. Fairfield, CT 06824 CAS blog: ctaudubon.blogspot.com CAS Twitter: twitter.com/CTAudubon Email: skruitbosch@ctaudubon.org www.ctaudubon.org